ASIN: B008QHXSFS
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 235
True Stories of American Slave Encounters with the Ku Klux Klan. All the narratives within this publication have been taken from the Federal Writers Project and are now held in the US Library of Congress and are available for further research. In total 2300 former slave narratives where collected for this project during the 1930's. ‘The Patrollers, Ku Kluxers or night riders come by sometimes at night to scare the niggers and make 'em behave. Sometimes the slaves would run off and the Patroller would catch 'em and have 'em whipped. I've seen that done lots of times. They was some wooden stocks (a sort of trough) and they'd put the darky in this and strap him down, take off his clothers and give him 25 to 50 licks, 'cording to what he had done.’ "Den dey was de Ku Klux Klan. Dey war frightful lookin' critters. My pappy say dey go out in de country an' tie pore niggahs to de tree and ...
